The co-creator of Netflix’s successful drama Adolescence replied to the accusations that the show is an “anti-white propaganda”.
Jack Thorne said the allegation was “absurd” in an interview on News agents podcast.
The accusation began with an article on X by Ian Miles Cheong, a right -based commentator based in Malaysia, who said that the series concerned a British knife killer who stabbed a death girl on a bus, and he is based on real cases such as the murderer of Southport. “”
“So guess what,” continued the post. “They exchanged the real killer of a black man / migrant to a white boy and the story therefore radicalized him online by the movement of the red pills. Just the absolute state of anti-white propaganda. ”
The position drew more attention when Elon Musk replied: “Wow”.
Talk about the News Podcast, Thorne was questioned by the host Jon Sopel on the conspiracy theory which asks: “Why was it the representation of a white boy who commits a knife and it is mainly black children who commit knife crimes in this country?”
Thorne, who created the show with Stephen Graham, replied: “They said that Stephen and I based him on a story, and another story, so we exchanged racing because we basically, and that ended there, and everything else. Nothing is further from the truth.
“I told a lot of real stories in my time, and I know the evil that can come when you take elements of a real story and put it on the screen and people do not expect it. There is no part of what is based on a true story, not a single part. ”
Questioned by the host Jon Sopel How he reacted to criticism, Thorne replied: “That he should have been a black boy? It is absurd to say that this is only committed by black boys. It’s absurd. This is not true. And the story shows a lot of cases of children of all breeds committing these crimes.
“We are not making a point on the race with this. We take a point on masculinity. We try to enter a problem. We do not say that it is one thing or another. We say that it is boys.”
Adolescence made the story of the British TV earlier this month, becoming the first streaming program at the head of the British weekly television ratings. His first episode was watched by 6.45 million people during the first week of release, according to the body of Ratings Barb. It is the most general public of any streaming television show in the United Kingdom in a single week, to exceed DeceiveAlso on Netflix, which accumulated 6.3 million during its first week.
